The trademark application RETHINK MANUFACTURING was filed by Bright Machines, Inc., a U.S. corporation (the "Applicant"). Application refused.
The application was filed in English (German was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on April 21, 2022.
The Refusal with reference B 018644112 was Rejected according to Article 7(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on May 26, 2022 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 7 with following description of goods:
Manufacturing machines, namely, surface mount placement machines, axial component insertion machines, dual-inline-pin component placement machines, loading and unloading machines, fastening machines, electric welding machines, and component parts thereof
Component parts of manufacturing machines, namely, material tray feeders, tape feeders, tube feeders, and tray loaders and unloaders for materials movement and final assembly of a product
Industrial robots
Industrial robots and their component parts
Industrial robots, namely, electronic device manufacturing and assembly robots
Robotic manufacturing hardware, namely, component parts of industrial robots
Machines for final assembly of a product
Electronic component manufacturing robots
Electronic circuit assembling robots.
The mark was filed in class 9 with Computer software for controlling, programming, structuring, and analyzing data from robots and associated equipment and robotic embedded software, namely, software for operation of a robot..
The mark was filed in class 35 with Consulting in the procurement of goods, namely, of hardware and software, said hardware and software being for use in the fields of the technical aspects of automated manufacturing technology and computer programming.
The mark was filed in class 37 with following description of goods:
Installation, maintenance, reconditioning, upgrading, customization, and repair of industrial robots and their component parts
Consultation in the field of installation, maintenance, reconditioning, upgrading and repair of industrial robots and their component parts
Computer hardware customization consulting
Computer hardware support, namely, installation, maintenance, reconditioning, upgrading, customization and repair of computer hardware
Computer hardware installation
Computer hardware repair
Computer hardware maintenance
Computer hardware upgrades and updating
Maintenance of computer hardware systems
Technical support services for industrial robots, namely, troubleshooting in the nature of repair of components, structural parts and computer hardware.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Providing temporary use of cloud based non-downloadable software for accessing, viewing, and managing data
Software as a service (SAAS) featuring software for accessing, viewing, and managing data
Software as a service (SAAS) featuring software for remote viewing of goods, for use in quality control of goods, and for use in visual inspection of goods, the foregoing utilizing machine learning and production planning
Product design and development, namely, technical development of standard machine controls and customer-specific machine controls
Technical consulting for third parties in the sector of product design and development, specifically of machine controls
Consulting regarding the design and development of goods, particularly regarding the adaptation of computer hardware and software for robots and associated equipment.